olive oiliness

English

Etymology

From olive oily +‎ -ness.

Noun

olive oiliness (uncountable)

1. (rare) The quality of being olive-oily.
   • 1972, Michael Novak, “[Spiro T. Anagnostopoulos: Remembrance of Humiliations Past] “We, the Establishment””, in The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics: Politics and Culture in the Seventies, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →LCCN, page 123:

     But at what price? What did “the melting pot” actually do for Spiro Anagnostopoulos? Jokes about being Greek, consciousness of the slickness of his hair and the olive oiliness of his skin, shame at his family name (how many hundred years had it endured without truncation?).

   • 1996 August 10, MS KAREN J TISHLER, “cyclosporine- liquid and smells”, in bit.listserv.transplant‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 2023-11-10:

     Although cyclosporine does have a distinctive smell, it doesn't really bother me too much. However, when I had to take it in its liquid form (from my heart transplant in 12/91 until about 6/93,) I disliked the olive-oiliness of it.

   • 2014, Brooks Headley with Chris Cechin-De La Rosa, Brooks Headley’s Fancy Desserts: The Recipes of Del Posto’s James Beard Award–Winning Pastry Chef, New York, N.Y., London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 216, column 2:

     You want to give this a larger dose of salt than normal: It will bring out the olive oiliness of the olive oil.

   • 2017 May 7, David Williams, “A taste of Croatia”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-05-07:

     A recent standout, which I tasted blind alongside a range of equally excellent Greek dry whites, Veralda’s example has a mouthwatering tension between mouthfilling tropical fruitiness, olive oiliness, tingling lemon and minerals that would be superb with meaty white fish with herby accompaniments.